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[rolanni]

Where was I?

Oh.  Wednesday -- volunteer gig at the hospital.  I did not entirely remember my lines -- or, at least, I remembered the lines I had been given several weeks ago, but they were no longer the lines that were required.  An interesting day therefore was had.

I arrived home to the happy news that my reading corner rug had arrived!

Have I mentioned here that I was renovating the corner of my office where my the cats' rocker had been located, and making it into a proper reading corner?  In fact, it's a project that has been going on for a number of months, as I haunted Marden's and estate sales and sale-sales.  I finally located the perfect chair at a doable price at the local furniture store's pre-Labor-Day sale*.  It was, naturally, the floor model, and it is a lovely chair indeed.  I'm very happy with my purchase**.

So, anyway, more window shopping and turning the Internet upside down, looking for the deals in its pockets finally turned up a (machine loomed) Turkey carpet at an incredible price, and that?  is what arrived on Wednesday.  I immediately unrolled it and set the unabridged dictionaries along the roll-edge to flatten, because this is exactly why god gave us unabridged dictionaries.

Yesterday -- Thursday -- the final piece arrived -- a full-spectrum reading lamp.  The corner is now complete -- and I may never leave.

Today! Because Central Maine persists in withholding raisin bread with white icing***, for which I've had a strong yen, ever since getting back from Maryland -- I will be making raisin bread with white icing.  *snaps fingers under universe's nose*

I'm also jonseing for smearcase (schmierkase in the proper German), but I'm pretty sure the universe is going to win that one.

All that said -- I have a question for y'all.

Miri and Liz appear together in the stories "Fighting Chance," and "Misfits;" they also appear in Agent of Change.  Are there any other stories with a strong Miri-and-Liz dynamic?

Here are some pictures of the renovated reading corner:

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*No, I don't know why you'd have a big sale before Labor Day, but Maine is a different country.  GM used to do model changeover in August, which meant that all the dealerships had stunning sales on Last Year's Models, so perhaps there's something similar that goes on with furniture.

**The tags on the chair allowed it to be a La-Z-Boy from the so-called "Designer's Choice Collection." A friend on Facebook offers the further information that it is a "high-leg recliner" and is most likely the Woodmont model.  *hits Google*.

Uh.  Yeah, that's it.  I am, for the record, a Shopping Goddess.

***I asked the baker at the local supermarket if they ever had raisin bread with white icing, and she stared at me blankly before offering up the information that, at Easter, they make hot cross buns.  All of the pieces of my childhood are evaporating before my eyes.  I think this is how people die; when the last thing thins out into fog, so do we.

Comments

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

The rug seems to have been Approved.

So I looked it up,

[ireneha.livejournal.com]

Because there is a slang in my 'culture' about putting a schmere on a bagel.

https://www.facebook.com/notes/germans-from-russia-foodways-and-traditions/cheese-schmierkase-5-recipes/1191067454259920/
Cheese -- Schmierkase
Recipe #1: Cooked Cheese - German-Russian Pioneer Cook Book, Eureka, South Dakota, page 86
Take 2 cups dry cottage cheese, crumble and wash well. Add 1 egg, 1/2 tsp. soda, salt and pepper to taste. Let set at least 2 hours or more. Then melt 2 Tablespoons butter in a heavy saucepan, add cheese mixture, cook on low heat until melted. Keep stirring. Pour into buttered dish.

Sounds like work - but I might even try this, as I can get cottage cheese (lactose free) but only soy cream cheese.

RE: So I looked it up,

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

It does sound like work. On the other hand...

[badgermirlacca.livejournal.com]

I love the rug, and the Reading Corner. Although I would be cleaning up cat vomit from the rug approximately nine microseconds after having removed the unabridged dictionaries. My cats have definite territory-marking tendencies, alas.

I've been wanting to ask if you remember where you got that fabulous cat tree you found (on eBay?) a few years ago. I've been thinking about it ever since, and have looked for it in a desultory fashion. Was it an Amarkat tree, do you remember?

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

It's only been three years. . .I did buy it on eBay; it is an Amarkat cat tree; it shipped from New Jersey. I think that it was probably a second sold by Amarkat itself, but I really have no proof of that at this remove. There's a photo of the box over here; maybe you can see a model number -- I can't: http://sharonleewriter.com/2013/05/the-great-cat-tree-caper/

Scrabble indulges in Recreational Vomiting, but the coon cats don't seem to enjoy the sport -- go figure.

[badgermirlacca.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you so much! I can see where the model number is, but can't read it. Would it be this one, by any chance?
http://www.armarkat.com/classic-cat-tree-a6901/

I have a couple of cats who do Vomiting, and one who does Pissing. All of them, of course, do Shedding.

*sigh* It could be worse. I could have another German Shepherd.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

The one you linked to is nice, but it's not the same one we have.

We have this one: http://www.armarkat.com/products/Classic-Cat-Tree-A7401.html

[badgermirlacca.livejournal.com]

Ah! Thank you!

That one looks a lot more stable. My guys have a habit of losing their minds every couple of days and play parkour at Mach Many, and I worry about cat trees that wobble and go crash.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

That would be why we built ours into a corner. When coon cats do parkour, stuff falls.

[filkferengi]

There's one currently on ebay for $102, including free shipping. The others are quite a bit more expensive.

[ohlibn.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmm, raisin bread with icing. One of the treats from my childhood. Do you have a favorite recipe you'd be willing to share?

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

I pulled a recipe down from the internet and gave it a try. Tastes pretty good, but I used too much milk in the icing and it came out more of a glaze. Still, not bad for a first attempt.

[filkferengi]

Congratulations on your new chair! It looks very comfortable.